Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 2

Besides, he could hear them whispering to one another.

Who acts: person, eyes · What happens: hear, whisper · To what, where: eyes, one

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	5 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hear	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 whispering	obl
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	fixed
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	person	eyes = eye					tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	eyes = eye not said here		one				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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